Sept 8th: Here are two of the books on Obama your kids are expected to read [get your children OUT!]

AIPNEWS.com ^ | Sept 2, 2009

[Ohioan]

These two books are certainly sickening attempts to mislead impressionable children into a completely distorted view of both the particular would be tyrant, and the major social issues of our time. Any school that employs them should be informed that there will be determined opposition to any future funding.

But that said, the ideological assumptions in the books need to be challenged, in every way possible, with America's youth. There are various approaches:

1. The references to Obama's father are ludicrous when one remembers that he was, in effect, just passing through, when Obama was conceived. The birth of Obama seems not to have seriously gained his attention. What in the name of reason is inspirational in that? What possible benefit can accrue to any child, who is given to see anything inspirational in that.

2. Obama's activities in the first book were made to sound like those of "Johnny Appleseed," a Southwestern Ohio folk legend, who planted apple trees all over our Ohio valley, in the early days of settlement. The difference is that our folk hero was a loner, doing genuine good for coming settlers. Obama was a young Marxist, seeking to organize susceptible people in a manner similar to Communist & other Marxist influenced totalitarians (such as Hitler) might have embraced in Europe's march towards the Collectivist societies that endangered the world of two previous generations of Americans.

Children are not too young to learn which side Americans used to be on, in the dichotomy that brings to mind.

[Grampa Dave]

I think dove season begins this Saturday.

A younger conservative female friend told her kids teachers/principal if they go through with the 0b0z0 program, she will keep her kids out of school that day.

Our schools are really hurting with our financial crisis, and if a high % of parents said their kids weren’t coming if the 0b0z0 program happens, a lot of Fed funds would lost that day.

[I see my hands]

[gimme1ibertee]

I don’t necessarily think burning copies of “Little Women” or “Huckleberry Finn” would be a good thing...however,a weenie roast over a smoldering copy of “Mein Kampf” wouldn’t hurt my feelings any.

[astounded]

This is truly sickening.

Not only do I have a difficult time believing that there are people in America who believe and write such propaganda, but that an institution (public education system) would force feed our children this dangerous pap.

For the first time in my 54 years of life, I am beginning to fear the government and what under Obama it has become.

[astounded]

...”That wasn’t “Hope” talking, it was the DOPE.”...

ROFLMHO. Thanks for the brightener....

[I see my hands]

[Dusty Road]

(3 sections and manage 36?

West Texas?)

Oh yea!

40 square miles.

[jurroppi1]

if you go here: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml and read through some of the information, you will probably come to the same conclusion I did.

There is no requirement, just a statement in the preK-6th grade section that states:

Before the Speech

Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?

There is a similar statement in the grade 7-12 activities suggested curricula.

I don't see any requirements anywhere, so I think it is more than a little disingenuous to state that there are any requirements let alone these specific books (no matter how ridiculous they are). If anybody can refute the above, I'd sure like to see the proof. If there is any, I'd be pretty apt to get excited (angry) about it myself. The whole thing stinks, but I say; lets get our facts straight first!

[AFPhys]

From Freeper autumnraine:

This statement by my daughter didn’t make sense to me day before yesterday, but it does now.

8 year old daughter comes up to me and said “Mama, did they have a bunch of books on George Bush?” I asked why (confused) and she said “Because they have SOOOO many books about Obama at school. They even have books about his DOG!!!”

This makes me sick.

It doesn't make me sick --- it scares me to death!

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!
— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichsparteitag, 1935

"Those who fail to learn from history. are doomed to repeat it." — George Santayana (1863–1952)

[AFPhys]

From Freeper autumnraine:

This statement by my daughter didn’t make sense to me day before yesterday, but it does now.

8 year old daughter comes up to me and said “Mama, did they have a bunch of books on George Bush?” I asked why (confused) and she said “Because they have SOOOO many books about Obama at school. They even have books about his DOG!!!”

This makes me sick.

It doesn't make me sick --- it scares me to death!

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!
— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichsparteitag, 1935

"Those who fail to learn from history. are doomed to repeat it." — George Santayana (1863–1952)

[Tired of Taxes]

I live on the other side of the country in another blue state. But, now and then, I find myself behind a pickup with the same sort of stickers you describe... lol... probably driving the other drivers crazy, but I appreciate it.

[wardaddy]

Marfa?

Alpine?

I used to date a gal from west Texas...a fine woman...she had a big bull she could stand on it’s back and it would walk around...that bull loved her....like a pet dog

a big Santa Gertrudis

[keats5]

Thank you for posting this. I sent this to Drudge and Beck. Could you FReepers do the same?